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Access to a SVN repository on a different port

first need to Edit the configuration file /home/cicciobomba/.subversion and under the [tunnels] add this line ciccio_diverso = /usr/bin/ssh -p 12345
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sudo svn co svn+ ciccio_diverso://root@192.160.150.151/svn-repo/progettino

0disse0 · 2012-02-03 18:16:02 12
what model of computer I'm using?
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sudo dmidecode -s system-product-name

jlaunay · 2012-02-08 11:28:46 3
Export log to html file

similar to previous except this exports to a temporary file, opens that file with your default web browser, then deletes it.
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x="/tmp/auth.html";sudo cat /var/log/auth.log | logtool -o HTML >$x;xdg-open $x;rm $x

unixmonkey30696 · 2012-02-09 13:36:21 3
Find the mounted storages
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sudo find . -name "syslog*.gz" -type f | xargs gzip -cd | grep "Mounted"

alamati · 2012-02-29 06:24:27 4
creates a ppp link between my Ubuntu development machine and BeagleBoard running Android connected via USB
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sudo `which adb` ppp "shell:pppd nodetach noauth noipdefault /dev/tty" nodetach noauth noipdefault notty 192.168.0.100:192.168.0.200

riansanderson · 2012-03-03 00:49:43 4
change directory permissions whithout changing file permissions recursive
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sudo find foldername -type d -exec chmod 755 {} ";"

megger · 2012-03-20 21:24:36 4
change file permissions whithout changing directory permissions recursive
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sudo find foldername -type f -exec chmod 644 {} ";"

megger · 2012-03-20 21:25:10 3
Add a custom package repository to apt sources.list

">>" appends to the file ">" replaces the entire file make sure to use ">>" Show Sample Output
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```
none
```
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sudo echo "package url" >> /etc/apt/sources.list

Gunni · 2012-05-01 21:32:51 4
how to scp to another pc on network
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sudo scp <file or folder> <name of pc 1>@<IP of pc 2>:

christopherpl · 2012-05-04 17:11:29 3
OS X: flush DNS cache

Purges DNS cache of OS X. dscacheutil -flushcache does not work since OS X 10.7. Show Sample Output
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```
Logoutput:
mDNSResponder: SIGHUP: Purge cache
```
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sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder

Xeno · 2012-05-15 18:33:51 3
Hibernate after 30minutes

Can use minute - m, hour - h Eg: sudo bash -c "sleep 2h; pm-hibernate" will hibernate the system after 2hours.
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sudo bash -c "sleep 30m; pm-hibernate"

intermediatech · 2012-05-21 17:56:11 3
list all world-writeable Linux files
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sudo find / -perm -2 ! -type l -ls

gwd · 2012-07-13 07:01:42 3
Flush DNS

Flush the DNS cache under Ubuntu (Debian?)
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sudo /etc/init.d/dns-clean

varghjarta · 2012-08-06 18:40:49 10
sudo ssh -D 88 -fN user@xxxx.no-ip.info

ssh port forwading
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sudo ssh -D 88 -fN user@xxxx.no-ip.info

marcalerm · 2012-08-07 13:13:42 3
detect partitions
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sudo file -bs /dev/sda | sed -e 's/.*partition 1$.*$ code offset.*/partition 1\1/g' -e 's/$.$;/\1\n/g'

jlaunay · 2012-08-17 12:54:05 5
Delete large amount of files matching pattern

In case you ever got to many arguments using rm to delete multiple files matching a pattern this will help you
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sudo find . -name "*.csv" | xargs /bin/rm

defc0n1 · 2012-08-29 11:38:37 5
Change my shell to zsh
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sudo usermod -s `which zsh` `whoami`

frankowp · 2012-09-11 21:58:01 8
Kill all processes belonging to a user

Kill all processes belonging to a user, with a minimum of resource usage. Great for the times when a user fork-bombs the system and it's difficult to login or run commands.
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sudo -u $USER kill -9 -1

jeffenstein · 2012-09-14 12:03:25 5
the first command i type on fresh ubuntu
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sudo apt-get install aptitude

kraiz · 2012-09-17 12:17:00 4
Change permissions for all files in the current directory
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find ./ -type f | xargs sudo chmod 644

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 00:11:14 10
Change permission for all directories inside the current one
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find site/ -type d | xargs sudo chmod 755

unixmonkey39631 · 2012-09-26 00:12:37 4
Remount all NFS mounts on a host

`mount -o remount` doesn't pick up new NFS options (eg. timeo, soft, retrans, etc) so you need to do a full mount/remount cycle. This one-liner makes it quick and easy :) Update your fstab with the new options, then run it. Show Sample Output
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```
/mnt/foo
ok :)
/mnt/bar
ok :)
```
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for P in $(mount | awk '/type nfs / {print $3;}'); do echo $P; sudo umount $P && sudo mount $P && echo "ok :)"; done

amatix · 2012-10-14 22:39:58 4
creating an USB Image
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sudo dd if=/your.img of=/dev/rdiskx bs=1m

raaiman · 2012-10-30 05:57:33 4
Simple way to share a directory over http without touching your router

you need ruby gems and localtunnel, further instruction on their website for ubuntu precise, just intall ... sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev rubygems1.8 libopenssl-ruby sudo gem install localtunnel ssh-keygen -t rsa python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 sudo localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000 Show Sample Output
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```
for ubuntu precise, just intall ...
sudo apt-get install ruby ruby1.8-dev rubygems1.8 libopenssl-ruby
sudo gem install localtunnel
ssh-keygen -t rsa
python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000
sudo localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000
```
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python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8000 &; sudo localtunnel -k ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub 8000

dzup · 2012-10-30 17:52:14 9
neat diff of remote files owned by root on different systems
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diff -u <(ssh -t user@host1 sudo cat /dir1/file1) <(ssh -t user@host2 sudo cat /dir2/file2)

moosaka · 2012-11-09 09:12:56 4
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Download Entire YouTube Channel - all of a user's videos

create the function then run 'yt-chanrip username' to download that user's entire channel. uses youtube-dl and the GData API. similar to http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/view/3154/download-youtube-playlist

(DEBIAN-BASED DISTROS) Find total installed size of packages given a search term

Replace \-dev with whatever you wanna search for

Add the time to BASH prompt

Adds the time in 12hr AM/PM format to the beginning of a prompt. Change \@ to \t for 24-hour time or \T for 12hr without AM/PM. To keep the time the next time you open a terminal, edit ~/.bashrc and stick the command at the bottom.

Display Spinner while waiting for some process to finish

alternatively, run the spinner for 5 seconds: timeout 5 bash -c 'spinner=( Ooooo oOooo ooOoo oooOo ooooO oooOo ooOoo oOooo); while true; do for i in ${spinner[@]}; do for j in seq 0 ${#i}; do echo -en "\b\b"; done; echo -ne "${i}"; sleep 0.2; done; done'

Advanced python tracing

Trace python statement execution and syscalls invoked during that simultaneously

your terminal sings

you know the song... sing along

Find the package that installed a command

Always tail/edit/grep the latest file in a directory of timestamped files

zsh only If you have this command in your history, you can always re-run it and have it reference the latest file. The glob matches all timestamped files and then the resulting array is sorted by modification time (m) and then the first element in the sorted array is chosen (the latest)

Update zone file Serial numbers

Will edit *.db files in the same directory with todays date. Useful for doing a mass update to domains on a nameserver, adding spf records, etc. Looks for a string starting with 200 or 201 followed by 7 numbers, and replaces with todays date. This won't overwrite Ip's but i would still do some double checking after running this. Make sure your server's date is correct, otherwise insert your own serial number. $rndc reload should usually follow this command.

Create an easy to pronounce shortened URL from CLI

Just add this function to your .zshrc / .bashrc, and by typing "shout *URL*" you get a randomly chosen English word that ShoutKey.com uses to short your URL. You may now go to shoutkey.com/*output_word* and get redirected. The URL will be valid for 5 minutes. (I've never used sed before, so I'll be quite glad if someone could straighten up the sed commands and combine them (perhaps also removing the whitespace). If so, I'll update it right away ;) )

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